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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

Dendrocygna autumnalis ORDER: ANSERIFORMES FAMILY: ANATIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Photo

© Kevin T. Karlson

A striking and gregarious duck of the Neotropics, the Black-bellied Whistling-Duck reaches the United States only in the very southern parts. Its long neck, long legs, black belly, and white wing patch make it a distinctive-looking waterfowl.

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    Recorded by Marian P. McChesney
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Noisy. Call a high-pitched, soft wheezy whistle of four notes to six notes, accented on second or third syllable.

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